Secure boot stops windows

[OCKnight_YT]

(Motherboard is Aorus A520 elite). (Windows says BIOS is legacy). On my Aorus BIOS I disabled csm support to enable secure boot and when I saved it and restarted my pc it didn't load windows.  I checked the boot sequence and it says there is nothing to go off of but says my nvme m.2 drive is there which has my windows 10 on it. When I did disable the secure boot and enable the csm support it comes up with something in the boot sequence and then works. Please help. (I would like to keep the secure boot).

[Helpful Tech Witch]

You need to disable legacy boot/csm to use secure boot.

SInce your windows only boots on csm, you need to reinstall as uefi

[OCKnight_YT]

15 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

You need to disable legacy boot/csm to use secure boot.

SInce your windows only boots on csm, you need to reinstall as uefi

If I reinstall windows don't I lose my files. Even if I do how will make it a uefi.

[VectorTech]

24 minutes ago, OCKnight_YT said:

If I reinstall windows don't I lose my files. Even if I do how will make it a uefi.

You can partition your drive to have some space for you to store your files, and move them over. When reinstalling windows via uefi you can select custom install and clear out the other partitions ensuring not to delete the one you moved your files to. Continue with the installation and when you're done move those files back and reinstall any applications.

[OCKnight_YT]

28 minutes ago, VectorTech said:

You can partition your drive to have some space for you to store your files, and move them over. When reinstalling windows via uefi you can select custom install and clear out the other partitions ensuring not to delete the one you moved your files to. Continue with the installation and when you're done move those files back and reinstall any applications.

Please simplify

[VectorTech]

Just now, OCKnight_YT said:

Please simplify

Alrighty-

 

Step 1. Open disk management on your computer, this can be done by right clicking on the start menu icon and selecting "Disk Management" or searching it in the Windows search and selecting "Create and format hard disk partitions".

Step 2. Once in disk manager you're going to want to select your primary hard drive, should be labeled "C:", right click it and selecting "Shrink Volume"- you'll want to enter the number of gigabytes in megabytes, so if you want 100GB's you'll have to enter (100x1024) 102,400. This will then create a new partition that is "unallocated", you can then right click on that partition, and create a "New Simple Volume". Hit next a few times, assign it a drive letter and a name.

Step 3. Migrate any important files you have to that volume through the windows file explorer, this would be the same as backing it up to an external hard drive.

 

Step 4. Reinstall windows, this can be done by downloading the windows media creation tool and installing the ISO to a USB (just google windows media creation tool, usb should be at least 8GB's), afterwards go ahead and proceed with the windows installation by booting via UEFI to USB, this will start the windows installation process.

Step 5. When you reach the screen that allows you to hit custom install select that option.

On the next screen you'll want to delete all the partitions EXCEPT the one you created, afterwards you'll select the empty volume and click next.

Step 6. After the installation is complete you may have to re-add the partition through disk manager, but you should be able to access all the files and migrate them to your clean install. I would recommend installing the programs and not just copying them back.

[OCKnight_YT]

 

20 hours ago, VectorTech said:

Alrighty-

 

Step 1. Open disk management on your computer, this can be done by right clicking on the start menu icon and selecting "Disk Management" or searching it in the Windows search and selecting "Create and format hard disk partitions".

Step 2. Once in disk manager you're going to want to select your primary hard drive, should be labeled "C:", right click it and selecting "Shrink Volume"- you'll want to enter the number of gigabytes in megabytes, so if you want 100GB's you'll have to enter (100x1024) 102,400. This will then create a new partition that is "unallocated", you can then right click on that partition, and create a "New Simple Volume". Hit next a few times, assign it a drive letter and a name.

Step 3. Migrate any important files you have to that volume through the windows file explorer, this would be the same as backing it up to an external hard drive.

 

Step 4. Reinstall windows, this can be done by downloading the windows media creation tool and installing the ISO to a USB (just google windows media creation tool, usb should be at least 8GB's), afterwards go ahead and proceed with the windows installation by booting via UEFI to USB, this will start the windows installation process.

Step 5. When you reach the screen that allows you to hit custom install select that option.

On the next screen you'll want to delete all the partitions EXCEPT the one you created, afterwards you'll select the empty volume and click next.

Step 6. After the installation is complete you may have to re-add the partition through disk manager, but you should be able to access all the files and migrate them to your clean install. I would recommend installing the programs and not just copying them back.

So basically you just put the fIles on a hard drive that is not your windows one then enable secure boot then do step 4 onwards. Is that right?

[OCKnight_YT]

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